List of Famous people born on January 1st

Dessima D Williams is a Grenadian diplomat and former Ambassador to the United Nations from Grenada who was reappointed to the ambassadorship in 2008. She was a professor of sociology, development and gender at Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts as well as serving as the Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS) chair during COP15 in Copenhagen (2009-2011). She is currently a Strategic Adviser to Oxfam on climate change. Dr. Williams holds a Ph.D. from American University and a bachelor's degree from the University of Minnesota. She is also the founder and Director of the Grenada Education and Development Programme (GRENED).

Aaron Rochin is an American sound engineer. He won an Oscar for Best Sound and was nominated for eight more in the same category.

Lara Jo Regan is an American photographer. Regan's career has spanned the photojournalistic, documentary, fine art, magazine and film realms. The progressive hybrid nature of her work has influenced the aesthetic direction of photojournalism documentary coverage of the entertainment industry and animal portraiture.

Clement Wing Hong Lam is a Canadian mathematician, specializing in combinatorics. He is famous for the computer proof, with Larry Thiel and S. Swiercz, of the nonexistence of a finite projective plane of order 10.

Shlomo Zvi Sternberg, is an American mathematician known for his work in geometry, particularly symplectic geometry and Lie theory.

Dominique Baffier is a French archaeologist and prehistorian who specialises in paleolithic cave paintings, or parietal art. She is known for her work at the Arcy-sur-Cure cave complex and for her subsequent role as curator of the Chauvet Cave from 2000 to 2014.

Aeone Victoria Watson, best known as her mononym Aeone, is a British musician and singer-songwriter, who now lives in Los Angeles, California, United States. Her music has been classified as new age, folk or world music. She has released four albums, one of which was an internet only release. She now works extensively in film and TV and has over 60 movie trailers to her credit. Early in her career, as Vikki, she represented the United Kingdom in the Eurovision Song Contest 1985 with the song "Love Is..." which came in fourth place.